# CVE-2017-9149: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) 0.6 and 0.6.1 silently fails to perform "Clean metadata" actions upon invocation from the Nautilus cont

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-05-22 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit (MAT) 0.6 and 0.6.1 silently fails to perform "Clean metadata" actions upon invocation from the Nautilus contextual menu, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading a file for which cleaning had been attempted.

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## References

- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/94ca62a429bb6a3a5f293de26053e54bbfeea9f9
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/issues/11527
- https://0xacab.org/mat/mat/commit/8f6303a1f26fe8dad83ba96ab8328dbdfa3af59a
- https://bugs.debian.org/858058

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